One other submit bidding farewell to 2025. We should be nearing the tip of this, proper?
This time I’ve an summary of destruction in EVE On-line over the course of 2025 and the way that in comparison with the last few years. However first, a look on the December MER.
EVE On-line… does issues…
As at all times, others write and remark in regards to the MER, so if you need completely different views or the uncooked information, you can begin with this checklist.
CCP itself had the next feedback on the MER:
- Financial Tendencies:
- A ~23% improve in Manufacturing worth over December.
- Drop in Excessive Sec Asteroid Mining worth, and improve in Excessive Sec Ice Worth.
- Bounty Prizes ISK faucet has stabilized over December, whereas the Commodities ISK faucet has seen a ~20% development.
- MPI continues to fall.
Anyway, advantageous advantageous. CCP will CCP.
Although there may be the Lively ISK Delta, the foreign money CCP pulls from the sport or ceases to rely as a result of participant inactivity, which hit 263.9 trillion ISK in December.
Dec 2025 – Lively ISK Delta
It’s uncommon for the money account to go down by that a lot.
TNG claims this can be a bug within the hyperlink above. Definitely the cash provide chart doesn’t agree with this.
Dec 2025 – Cash Provide
It looks as if that may be down way more if the Lively ISK Delta was appropriate. Once more, extra conflicting and/or unhealthy information from CCP.
One different merchandise of word is the asset security ISK sink, which hit 25.5 trillion ISK in December, up from the 19.5 trillion ISK in November, and about ten instances its regular worth, largely as a result of collapse of Pandemic Horde and the evacuation of the Drone Areas.
Destruction
December noticed a fall off in destruction when in comparison with the harmful frenzy of November and the clearing of constructions from the Drone Areas, however was nonetheless the second most energetic month for destruction in 2025.
The month noticed almost 684K hulls, capsules, and constructions destroyed, shy of November’s rely of 730K, however nonetheless simply eclipsing Might, which is now in third place with 538K.
Likewise, the ISK worth of losses in December, measured at 63.28 trillion ISK within the MER, was down from November’s 74.85 trillion quantity, however was nonetheless effectively forward of June’s of 51 trillion ISK complete, which had been the excessive water mark till occasions within the Drone Areas began to land.
Listed below are the numbers for 2025:
- Loss Rely Complete
- Jan – 514,511 complete losses
- Feb – 427,027 complete losses
- Mar – 538,625 complete losses
- Apr – 464,177 complete losses
- Might – 530,632 complete losses
- Jun – 476,877 complete losses
- Jul – 427,662 complete losses
- Aug – 442,795 complete losses
- Sep – 420,017 complete losses
- Oct – 460,583 complete losses
- Nov – 729,531 complete losses
- Dec – 683,626 complete losses
- Avg Losses per Day
- Jan – 16,597.13 losses per day
- Feb – 15,250.96 losses per day
- Mar – 17,375.00 losses per day
- Apr – 15,472.57 losses per day
- Might – 17,117.16 losses per day
- Jun – 15,895.90 losses per day
- Jul – 13,795.55 losses per day
- Aug – 14,283.71 losses per day
- Sep – 14,000.57 losses per day
- Oct – 14,857.52 losses per day
- Nov – 24,317.70 losses per day
- Dec – 22,052.45 losses per day
- Complete ISK Worth Misplaced
- Jan– 46.86 trillion ISK
- Feb – 44.55 trillion ISK
- Mar – 50.78 trillion ISK
- Apr – 47.77 trillion ISK
- Might – 52.10 trillion ISK
- Jun – 51.39 trillion ISK
- Jul – 45.80 trillion ISK
- Aug – 46.39 trillion ISK
- Sep – 40.94 trillion ISK
- Oct – 48.20 trillion ISK
- Nov – 74.85 trillion ISK
- Dec – 63.28 trillion ISK
- Complete ISK Worth Misplaced per Day
- Jan – 1,511.77 billion ISK per day
- Feb – 1,590.99 billion ISK per day
- Mar – 1,638.07 billion ISK per day
- Apr – 1,592.22 billion ISK per day
- Might – 1,680.63 billion ISK per day
- Jun – 1,713.09 billion ISK per day
- Jul – 1,477.51 billion ISK per day
- Aug – 1,496.51 billion ISK per day
- Sep – 1,364.76 billion ISK per day
- Oct – 1,554.73 billion ISK per day
- Nov – 2,495.14 billion ISK per day
- Dec – 2,041.14 billion ISK per day
Or, to view at the very least a few of that information within the type of a chart, that is how 2025 piled up month by month.
2025 – Losses by Month
2025 Destruction Summed Up
As talked about final month, CCP modified the format of the killdump.csv file, eradicating all human readable names and breaking all of my PowerBI studies. So I can’t report out many of the stuff I’ve performed up to now. However I can nonetheless get the totals. So we’ll go together with that.
In the event you add up all these numbers from the MER… the MER being supply of knowledge offered to us by CCP… you get the next totals.
- 2025 Complete Losses – 6,116,063
- 2025 Complete Worth – 612.91 trillion ISK
In fact, that’s not what CCP introduced of their annual abstract.
Nope, that is the quantity they offer.
CCP’s 2025 Destruction Declare
That’s 1.14 quadrillion ISK destroyed, almost double what the MER information signifies.
That is a part of the rationale I’m performed with the MER. CCP reveals how little they care about this type of factor by way of their sloppiness, their indifference, and their arbitrary adjustments to what information they current and the way it’s formatted. It’s virtually as in the event that they don’t want an ongoing historic report.
And the neighborhood crew’s indifference to any questions concerning numbers is an merchandise of report. They don’t know and so they don’t care. The neighborhood crew exists just about to advertise Twitch streamers and views every part else as a nuisance. They made a pleasant graphic with an enormous quantity and moved on.
Over at DOTLAN EVE Maps, Wollari has his personal summaries, primarily based on the API.
DOTLAN Jumps & Kills – 2025 vs 2024
Including up ShipKills and PodKills from highsec, lowsec, and nullsec will get you to 13,702,726 complete kills.
That’s over double what the MER reveals. And that doesn’t even embody wormhole kills, which the MER does embody.
I don’t know which one is correct. We’re each utilizing completely different information sources from CCP and arrive at very completely different solutions. And Wollari doesn’t put out the ISK numbers, however possibly that’s the variety of kills CCP is utilizing to get their ISK quantity. Perhaps. I don’t know and CCP by no means tells.
The conclusion with the details at hand can solely be that there is no such thing as a approach to know as an exterior consumer what the proper quantity is. (And it brings into severe quest whether or not CCP is aware of both.)
We’re attending to the “UN Report Numbers” rule of statistics, which is that the extra exact the quantity is, the extra doubtless it’s to be bullshit.
As such, I’ll fall again on what one should when the information assortment strategies are demonstrably not counting the proper complete. If the account technique is fallacious however at the very least persistently fallacious, then one can at the very least see developments within the information.
Tendencies Since 2020
With that in thoughts, wanting on the developments, how did 2025 stack up in opposition to previous years?
I’ve collected the information each month from the MER since 2020, and in wanting on the information, 2025 seems to be an uptick.
The full kill rely for 2025, as famous above, was 6,116,063. Utilizing gathered MER information, so evaluating apples to apples, that is what the earlier 5 years regarded like as compared.
| Yr | Complete Kills | Diff from 2025 | % of 2025 |
| 2024 | 5,886,112 | (229,951) | 96.24% |
| 2023 | 5,212,934 | (903,129) | 85.23% |
| 2022 | 4,497,590 | (1,618,473) | 73.54% |
| 2021 | 4,899,115 | (1,216,948) | 80.10% |
| 2020 | 5,674,137 | (6,116,063) | 92.77% |
To visualise this a special method, here’s a month by month chart evaluating the previous six yr.
Common losses per day by month for 2020 by way of 2025
You possibly can see the Covid spike in 2020. The remainder of the yr, which noticed the opening of World Conflict Bee in July, which lasted for over a yr, doesn’t seem like a lot in comparison with the March/April “we’re all caught at house, let’s discover an outdated online game to play” peak… till you examine it to 2019, which it beat soundly, or to 2021 and 2022, when CCP was busy breaking the in-game financial system primarily based of a set of very dumb concepts. The battle stored the numbers up for some time, however as CCP compounded its financial catastrophe, numbers tanked.
That was the yr of disappointment, about which I’ve already written intimately.
Additionally, the there was an issue in 2020 the place the MER solely counted 30 days per 30 days, so if an enormous battle landed on the thirty first… like M2-XFE… that simply didn’t get counted. Once more, the incompetence does make you roll your eyes.
Since then the sport has been considerably on a restoration angle. We’re nowhere close to the height of 2012 and 2013, however we’re
The ISK losses inform an analogous story, that 2025, which noticed 612.91 trillion ISK misplaced in keeping with the MER, was one thing of a excessive water mark.
| Yr | Complete ISK Misplaced | Diff from 2025 | % of 2025 |
| 2024 | 521.01 trillion | -91.91 trillion | 85.01% |
| 2023 | 478.99 trillion | -133.93 trillion | 78.15% |
| 2022 | 361.49 trillion | -251.42 trillion | 58.98% |
| 2021 | 408.49 trillion | -204.42 trillion | 66.65% |
| 2020 | 459.45 trillion | -153.47 trillion | 74.96% |
Once more, 2020 is probably going beneath counted even within the apples to apples view as a result of that lack of consideration of the thirty first day of any month. However, when laid out on a month by month chart, the strains look comparable.
Common worth of losses day by month for 2020 by way of 2025
The second battle at M2-XFE is seen there initially of 2021… as the primary battle in December 2020 isn’t…. after which the downward pattern resulting in the droop of 2022.
What’s noticeable in these charts is how, because the return to the 2 growth per yr plan, the tip of the yr has been hitting a peak.
You possibly can see very a lot in losses per day, if much less so in ISK loss, that November is now one thing of an annual peak second for the sport over the past three years, with 2025 exceeding the earlier two years somewhat dramatically.
The query here’s what about these expansions are inflicting such an annual bump? And why doesn’t the Might growth hit as arduous? Is there a summer time droop? And why was this November so huge even in comparison with previous late expansions?
I imply, CCP was over at Eurogamer on Friday crowing about how huge the Catalyst growth was, bringing again outdated gamers and getting new gamers to leap in… and I’m at a little bit of a loss.
That’s as a result of… effectively, there was nothing fallacious with Catalyst, however there wasn’t something floor breaking both. It wasn’t just like the addition of wormhole house or faction warfare… or the revitalization of faction warfare extra just lately. I couldn’t even start to let you know what from Catalyst would entice new gamers. Additionally, it isn’t like they’re promoting once more or something. Their total advertising and marketing finances appears to go to Fanfest and streamer subsidies.
And but, the numbers have been unarguably up. Can not deny that.
Positive, there was the collapse of Pandemic Horde and the clearing out of the drone areas in November, however each CCP and Reddit pundits have defined that away as one thing that didn’t matter. CCP did a Scope video after which pretended nothing actually occurred.
So issues are nice… as a result of ORE now has mining destroyers? Is that what the general public was actually demanding?
Anyway, the entire thing simply makes me really feel drained at this level.
The entire premise of destruction within the MER was to see if destruction developments would observe with the well being of, and exercise ranges inside, the sport itself. And that appears to have been fairly effectively confirmed. These charts line up fairly effectively with Jester’s login numbers when one permits for his use of a special averaging system.
Mainly, the extra folks taking part in, the extra destruction there may be. Appears about proper.
In order that experiment is at an finish, as are my month-to-month MER posts right here.
Mentions of the MER will doubtless be retired to a point out in Friday bullet factors submit going ahead.
